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Well it is Tuesday morning and I am off to Liverpool today, to the Queen Elizabeth 11 Crown Court to do another stint at jury service. I have no idea if my services will be required or not, nobody does until the day itself but it would be a shame to have to take time out if I am not subsequently elected. There is a possibility that I won’t make it as a juror but I’ll have to wait and see. It was Christmas Eve when I last did some electrical work and it might be a further two weeks before I get the chance to work again but if jobs are scarce I do have work to start on at home. Late last summer E and I purchased materials and fittings for converting our downstairs toilet/cloakroom into a wet room containing a shower, toilet and wash basin but we never got round to starting the job. Presently the room is stripped of wall and floor coverings but still has a working toilet and wash basin which must be removed before we can begin the installation. Happy days again. Work at home never seems to end. We plan to completely renovate the second largest bedroom on the first floor at some point. At the moment the room is full of odds and ends which need to be thrown out or stored in the cellar, the carpet requires changing and no doubt I will need to add a couple of extra power outlets too. Then there is the furniture to buy, bed, wardrobes and such. To be fair the room hasn’t had a proper make-over for years and it really needs it. There is no special reason for doing it up but it will allow its use as a guest room. There are two spare  bedrooms on the top floor (the third bedroom is being used for storage and as an office) but they are only fitted out with the bare essentials so it would be nice to have a larger and better appointed room as one of the four main bedrooms situated on the floor below. This will mean that we have six of the seven bedrooms available for use, although E and I are using two of them. For the moment I am focused on my trips to Liverpool and all of this can wait. When it gets a little warmer I really must push to get the garage finished too but the main thing there is getting that roller door installed! No, it hasn’t been fitted yet but all that is needed is to get it raised to ceiling height and onto the brackets I fitted a few months ago, the rest should be easy. It is hard getting things done when there is no-one available to help.

Shirley Anne